Word: homework
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...Packer. All assignments, handouts, work sheets, what-have-you would be distributed electronically. (Thus rendering the copy machine, possibly the only device on earth less reliable than the computer, obsolete.) Students would take notes on their laptops in class, then take their laptops home and do their homework on them. To turn in an assignment, they would simply drag and drop it into the appropriate folder, where the teacher could wirelessly retrieve it. Voila: the paperless classroom...
...pictures of themselves. "I've been sick for the past two days," chirps Annie, a Packer eighth-grader, "but instead of just doing nothing and waiting to get the assignments from my friends, I could get 'em all off the email and catch up without having a ton of homework to do when I get back to school." And kids are picking up computer skills along the way: watching the fifth-graders touch-type would make an executive secretary weep. They're whizzes at video production. They speak PowerPoint like it's their mother tongue--it's how they...
...Rebecca Boucher, she overcame any ambivalence she might have had. Parents also have access to Packer's system, so she can keep track of what her kids should be doing for homework without having to peer obnoxiously over their shoulders. More important, one of her children, who's now in sixth grade, is severely dyslexic. It takes him an hour to write a paragraph by hand--but he's a demon typist. "It was as if he was playing on a level field for the first time," she says, and her relief is heartfelt. "For him, having that laptop...
...came even before the water connection. "Our lives are on that computer," admits Jesse. "Being young, we have to have our Internet." Although he kids Kara about her gaming addiction, he spends a fair amount of time on the sofabed in front of the computer. "He just has more homework to do," she says. Yes, he does that wirelessly...
Gross has been doing his homework on student centers...